Re: FLASH: Good news, bad news or vapourware ?

[John Dowdell]

At 5:30 PM 1/10/0, RedStar wrote:

> What would your bet be ?

> http://www.w3nation.com/features/news/groundzero.htm


Paul has a good article, but I'm not sure how he reached the conclusion

that you'd need Flash to show a SWF in a web page. SWF is SWF, and the

Flash Player can play any valid SWF file.


Heck, I'd wager you could write a simple SWF file in a hex editor and drop

it in your browser.... ;-)


Perhaps he meant that to use Flash 4's "Publish" feature to create the HTML

or JavaScript that some pages might want. I'm sure that by the time Adobe

gets around to exporting to SWF themselves that they'll find some way to

offer simple HTML to invoke the SWF.


(Sidenote: If you're using Adobe GoLive, please be sure to use Flash's

"Publish" HTML rather than the GoLive plugin icon... the OBJECT/EMBED

structure lets more of your site's visitors easily see the piece. More info

is in:

 "Tips for using Flash files in Adobe GoLive"

  http://www.macromedia.com/go/14080 )


jd






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